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Prudence r a Story of /Esthetic London, By Lacy C. Lillie. (Sampson Low and Co.)—As a pretty sketch of esthetic life, this novelette will serve to pass an idle hour. It is not powerful, but it is attractive in its graceful picture, and will not fail to appeal to the feminine mind, through its delieate little details of dross and situation, Throughout the story rung a thread of stronger fibre, which is worked
out in the characters of Helena Armory and Jonas Fielding; and the book is wholly free from vulgarity,—no small praise to the taste of the author, when a story deals with " "Esthetic London," It is amusing to see the evident admiration, not to say reverential awe, with which the author speaks of this enchanted ground ; but, after all, if pretty colours end picturesque attitudes may not be admired, it would go hard with those who kindly do their best to contribute to the pleasure side of social existence. The story is but a sketch, but it is a sketch suggesting some reserve power in the author which may be used to good purpose in another story, when she has passed into a larger field of thought and feeling,
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